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"The man, whose gaunt figure and stooped posture resembled that of a shuffling corpse, slowly made his way up the icy street, dragging a large bin of salt behind him. Every so often, he would pause and use his shovel to spread salt across the sidewalks. Local legend claimed that the man was a serial killer. He hid the bodies in his bin of salt so that they mummified. The man kept to himself, so isolated that few suspected the truth: he salted the sidewalks out of care for others, as a way to remain a part of society even as he suffered self-imposed quarantine as punishment for his past failures."